Novel Visual Thinking and Aesthetics at POVO - PEOPLE Exhibition
July 1st, 2010 by Nearinteraction
A development partner at POVO - PEOPLE exhibition at the Museu da Electricidade in Lisbon, NearInteraction was responsible for a range of interactive installations including a photo booth that captured and projected a series of still images to a mosaic on a wall at the front entrance, a gesturally activated table where users could browse historical identity documents using simple hand movements and a set of sensor embedded chairs allowing a selection of six audio themes related to people in Western music to be played and listened to. The exhibition offers a fresh sociological and political perspective on the origin and evolution of the concept of people using a variety of novel visual thinking and aesthetics and will be displayed from 19 June to 19 September 2010.
Watch the video of the exhibition.
Category: Interaction
NearInteraction at Pecha Kucha #8 in Lisbon
June 1st, 2010 by Nearinteraction
Tags: Pecha Kucha Lisbon
Category: Event
Coca-Cola FIFA 2010 Vending Machine
May 23rd, 2010 by Nearinteraction
Developed for Ivity and Coca-Cola FIFA 2010, NearInteraction created an interactive vending machine which would respond to anyone who danced in rhythm to the FIFA 2010 World Cup anthem. From people dancing with their children to teenagers trying out some new moves, this was a good example of how simple interactions can reinforce brand perception and create strong emotional responses from the public.
The interactive system would interpret the intensity and rhythm of each person’s dance whereby automatically dispensing a Coca-Cola can to those with the best moves. Taking the pop-up effect one step further, videos of the best selected dances were launched on YouTube, generating a viral network effect.
Category: Interaction, Jobs
Emotive Data: Narrative Mapping as a Tool, Processing Workshop in London
April 28th, 2010 by Nearinteraction
As a taster of more to come, NearInteraction ran a fully booked-out weekend workshop in London this past weekend.
The Processing workshop, designed to serve as a solid introduction to the computer programming language for a mixed disciplinary group of inspired beginners, kicked off on Saturday with an animated discussion led by Diogo Terroso on Information Design versus Data visualization, followed on Sunday with a presentation on Narrative Techniques towards designing Emotive Data by The Earth is Not Flat’s Crystal Campbell and Nina Honiball.
We won’t say anything just yet, but we certainly have some more surprises up our sleeves!
Category: Interaction
TNDMII Gil Vicente: Touching the Past, alongside the Future.
April 22nd, 2010 by Nearinteraction
Presenting augmented reality and gestural navigation in two interactive installations, and the encompassing exhibition design on commission for the Teatro Nacional D.Maria II in Lisbon, Portugal to commemorate the famous Portuguese playwright Gil Vicente.
Showcasing 16th Century manuscripts is no easy feat, but with NearInteraction’s Augmented Reality Vitrine with Gestural Navigation the audience could at once see both the original books yet were also able to gesturally browse pertinent images and excerpts chosen by the theatre’s historical experts.
The second installation, a Gestural Guided Archive Stand, is the cumulation of many years of collected footage, imagery and sound clips of several hundred performances. The audience can browse and pause the content intuitively with the mere movement of their hand whilst listening to various clips that are activated by an embedded proximity sensor activating sound.
The exhibition will be shown at the Teatro Nacional D.Maria II in Lisbon, Portugal throughout May 2010.
Category: Interaction
Diogo Terroso speaking at Gear: Sound and Interactive Media
April 8th, 2010 by Nearinteraction
Diogo Terroso spoke at Gear this week, an event held outside Lisbon featuring a series of talks, demos, concerts and work-in-progress works. Speaking alongside YDreams, Edigma and Creative BitBox, NearInteraction discussed it’s unique approach to creating interactive installations.
Category: Interaction
Carnegie Mellon Innovation Forum on Services and Technologies for Interactive Media (NET-STIM)
February 28th, 2010 by Nearinteraction
Held at Pavilhão do Conhecimento in Lisbon, the foremost goal of the forum was to gather like minded expertise of Portuguese research centers, private companies and government agencies working in key interactive technologies and services of digital media.
Diogo Terroso was invited to represent NearInteraction and partake in the opening roundtable discussion on Technologies for Interactive Media, exploring how interactive media services require an interdisciplinary approach, where the disciplines of design, communication, psychology, anthropology and sociology need to combine in an effective and innovative way in order to create new products and services, for example, media distribution services (the iPod and iTunes or eBooks and Kindle), social networks (Facebook and Twitter), or co-creation services (like YouTube and Blogging).
Category: Event, Media
NearInteraction and the Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações do Centenário da República.
January 15th, 2010 by Nearinteraction
NearInteraction is proud to represent the Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações do Centenário da República (developed for the centennial celebrations since Republic implementation) with a travelling exhibition of a multi-touch interactive table that reads QR coded cards. Already displayed at two official meetings, the Congresso da Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses, in Viseu, Portugal, and a formal launch in the Biblioteca do Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, in Lisbon, Portugal, the table will be moving to multiple events and several locations around the country. The table displays an intuitive interface upon which the visitors can explore, amongst other topics, the significant events of the Republic, biographies of representative people as well as all the events and initiatives taking place in 2010 as part of the celebrations.
Category: Event, Interaction
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